Bottle-stopple



L. s. HOYT.

. BOTTLE STOPPLE. No. 314,179, Patented Mar. 17, 1885.

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LEWIS S. HOYT, (lF BOSTON, ASSIGNOR TO DANIEL E. DEVOE, OF BROOK- LINE, AND FRANK F. SMALLEY, OF CHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOTTLE-STOPPLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 314,179, dated March 17, 1885. Application filed September 30, 1884. (K model.)

I 0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS S. HOYT, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bottle-Stopples, of which the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which said invention ,appertains to make and use the same, refera vertical section of the elastic dish-shaped cover before its application to the cap.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures of the drawings.

My invention relates more especially to that class of stopples which are employed with the ottles usedin putting up lager-beer, ginger ale, &c'.; and it consists in a novel construction and arrangement of the parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed, by which a simpler, cheaper, and more effective article of this character is produced than is now in ordinary use.

In stopples of this character as usually con structed the cap of the stopple is provided with a solid plug or cushion of elastic rubber adapted to fit and close the mouth of the bottle; but such plugs or cushions are not only expensive in the first instance, but require the exercise of considerable skill to replace them when once worn out. My invention is designed to obviate these objections, and to that end I make use of means which will be readily understood by all conversant with such matters from the following explanation.

This stopper comprises a metallic cap or body, A, and a cover, B. The cap Ais composed of a top plate, (I, provided with an annular bead or flange, 1), around its circumference, a bottom plate, m, of smaller diameter than the top plate,and a shank or neck, f, connecting said plates; The top plat-e is provided on its upper side with an ear, w, to which the yoke or binding-wire G is hinged. The said top plate is also provided on its upper side with studs 8, which take a part of the strain from the eye of the hinge, and tend to prevent the straightening of the latter when the stopple is turned too far or in the wrong direction.

The cover is composed of elastic rubber, is dishshaped in form, and provided with a narrow mouth or opening 011 its upper side,

through which the disk m, neck f, and the flange of the cap are inserted, the cover contracting around said flange and attaching it- 'self thereto in a manner which will be readily obvious without a more explicit description. The binding wire or yoke is hinged to the cap by a curved pin, t, which projects laterally from the ear m; but it may he hinged in any other suitable manner.

The ear is to enable the stopple to be more readily inserted in and removed from the bottle; but this may also be omitted, if desired, and the wire 0 hinged directly to the body of the cap.

By constructing the cap with the chamber 6 not only is a saving of material effected, but the cover is enabled to yield to a greater eX- tent than would otherwise be possible, and thereby adjust itself more perfectly to the inequalities of the bottle.

" Having thus explained my invention, what I claim is A bottle-stopple composed of ametallic (Ll-p comprising an upper disk, a lower disk of smaller diameter than the upper disk, and a neck connecting said disks, in combination with an elastic dishshaped cover inclosing the lower portion of said cap, said cover being provided with an inward flange, whichcontracts around the upper disk, substantially as described.

LEWIS S. HOYT.

Witnesses:

O. A. SHAW, L. J. WHITE. 

